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FIRE INSURANCE E. J. NORRIS, Agent Edgefield, South Carolina Representing the HOME INSURANCE COMPANY, of New York, and the old HARTFORD, of Hartford, Connecticut. The HOME has a greater Capital and Surplus combined than any other company. The HARTFORD is the leading com pany of the World, doing a greater Fire business than any other Co. See Insurance Reports PRUDENTIAL LIFE "HAS THE STRENGTH OF GIBRALTAR." ? E. J. Norris, FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE. Pianos and Organs At present we desire to call especial attention to the Adam Schaff piano, which is used exclusively in the public schools of Chicago. The factory has been established forty years. It is ? strictly high grade standard piano. Prices of uprights are from $300 to $500. Farrand Organs. We have sold over 1,500 Farrand organs and all of them are now giving satisfaction. We also car ry a line of other makes of pianos and organs. Any of our goods are sold on liberal terms of payment. Satisfaction guaranteed in every particular. Holland Brothers, * Greenwood, S. C. For Boys and Men We have never been better equipped than;we are this season to supply the boys and men of Edgefield county with Clothing, Shoes, Hats, Neckwear, Etc. Large assortment of all kinds. We de sire to call especial attention to our large stock of Eclipse shirts for men. Notqing'better on the market for the money. Drop in to see us. If we haven't what you want, we will order it out for you at once. Dorn & Mims A E. Padgett, President kkk* W. H. Harling, Cashier Taos. H. Rainsford, Vice President W. A. Byrd, Asst. Cashier The Farmers Bank STATE, COUNTY AND TOWN DEPOSITORY Capital and Surplus Earnings Total Resources over $110,000.00 300,000.00 After 20 years of successful banking, greets the public and its patrons for the year 1?12 with best wishes, thanking them for their patronage and confidence in the past. Conservative business solicited. Interest paid on special deposits. Your account ap preciated. If not already a depositor, begin now. DIRECTORS: Thos. H. Rainsford, Dr. C. P. DeVore, W. B. Penn, E. H. Folk, S. B. Mays, C. A. Wells, W. H. Harling, A. E. Padgett! EXCURSION RATES. Round Trip Excursion Fares Via Southern Railway-Premier Carrier of the South From Edgefield. (Proportionately red aced fares from other points.) Chattanooga, Tenn, and return $10.45. Account National Asso ciation of Teachers in colored schools, July 24-28, 1912. Tickets sold July 22 and 23 and for trains scheduled to arrive Chattanooga be fore noon July 24, 1912. good re turning to reach original starting point not later than midnight Aug. 3, 1912. Atlania, Ga. and return. Ac count Biennial Meeting, Grand United Order of Odd Fellows (col ored) September 9-14, 1912. Tick ets sold September 7, 8 and 9, 1912 good returning September 21, 1912. Charlottsvilkv Va. and return. Account University of Virginia Summer School, June 19-August 2, 1912. Tickets sold June 18, 19,20, 21, 24, 25, July 2 and 3, 1913, with final limit returniug fifteen days from date of sale. Black Mountain, N. C. and re turn. Account Montreat Chautau qua and Religious Assemblies, July /-August 31? 1912. Tickets sold July 5, 12, 19, 28, 29, August 2. 5 9, 12 and 19, 1912, good returning' September 1, 1912. Chicago, 111. and return $30.50. Account National Educational As sociation, July 0-12, 1912. Tickets sold July 3, 4 and 5, *1912, good re turning August 31, 1912. Toledo, O. and return ?27.55. Account of Baptist Young People's Union of America, July 4-7. 1912. Tickets sold July 2, 3 and 4, 1912, good returning July 10, 1912. Atlantic City, N. J. and retnrn 2 4.30. Account Prohibition Na tional Convention, July 10-12,1912. Tickets sold July 6, 7 and 8, 1912, good returning July 18, 1-9.12. Washington, D. C. and return, $17.30. Account International Bi ble Student's Association, July 6-15 1912. Tickets sold July 4 and i, 1912, good returning July 17, 1912. Knoxville, Tenn, and return, $10.50. Account Summer School of the South, University of Tenn essee, June 18-July 26, 1912. Tick ets?sold June 16, 17, 18, 22, 23, 29, July 6, 7 and 13, 1912, good re turning fifteen - days from date of sale. Chappel Hill Station, N. C. and return $11.95. Account Summer School, University of North paro lina College, June 11-July 20, IDTS.' Tickets sold July 7,(8, 9, 1912,good returning July 23, 1912. For detailed information, call on nearest ticket agent or the under signed. Pullman sleeping car ser vice and dining car service on all through trains. Round trip sum mer excursion fares now in effect to all resorts. W. E. McGhee, AGPA, Columbia, S. C. A. H. Acker, TP A., Augusta, Ga. Schedule Changes Southern Rail way-Premier Carrier of the South. Effective Monday, July 1, 1912, the Southern Railway announces schedules between Aiken and Edge field will be as follows: Train 206 daily leave Edgefield 9:10 a. m. arrive Trenton 2:35 a. m. No. 231 daily leave Edgefield 10: 13 a. ra. leave Trenton 10:33 a. m. arrive Aiken 11:25 a. m. No. 229 daily except Sunday leave Edgefield 1:40 p. m. leave Trenton 2:05 p. m. arrive Aiken 3:00 p. m. J No. 207 daily leave Edgefield ?50 p. m. arrive Trenton 7:10.? No. 208 daily leave Trenton 9:45 a. m. arrive Edgefield 10:05 a. m. No. 230 daily leave Trenton 10: 40 a. m. arrive Edgefield 11:00 a.m. No. 210 daily except Sunday leaves Aiken 11:50 a. m. leave Trenton 12:50 p. m. arrive Edge field 1:10 p. m. No. 232 leave Aiken 3:30 p. m. leave Trenton 4:30 p. m. Edgefield 4:55 p. m. No. 206 daily leave Trenton 7:20 p. m. arrive Edgefield 7:40. W. E. McGhee, AGPA., Columbia, S. C. A. H. Acker, TP A., Augusta, Ga. Fourth of July Excursions Via Southern Railway-Premier Carrier of the South. On account of Fourth of July, 1912, the Southern Railway an nounces very low round trip fares between all stations, tickets on sale July 2, 3 and 4, 1912, with final limit returning July 8, 1912. For complete information, as to fares, schedules, etc. call on nearest ticket agent, or W. E. McGhee, AGPA., Columbia, S. C. A. II. Acker, TPA., Augusta, Ga. uss** hnja. MaM?at?aai ya?fl?MtH .?? ANN, Fa&er'sHelper By JAKE OSBORNE (Copyright, foil, hy Asaociated Literary Preu)^ When George Walton's friend Jack Gray said he had been transferred from New York to San Francisco, and that be was worrying about what to do with the little home he had bought at Breden, a nearby town that boasted a small college, George bad an roe pi ration. TH rent the honse myself," ?a*d he. "It*s Just the sort of quiet place I'm looking for where I can fin ten this story Pm writing*" One September day George estab lished himself in the Gray bunga low ca the outskirts, of Bredon. He considered h has elf lucky. The bouse was channing. He didn't know a souL so he need fear no Interruption. And he had a thoroughly reliable housekeeper m the person of middle aged Mrs. Bridget Magoon, who bad kept his bachelor apartments in town and whose only drawback waa ber motherless grandson. Patsy Leary, aged two and a half years. On the morning after his arrivai George waa dwelling on his marry blessings when his reveries were In terrupted by a quick rap on the screen door. He looked up to 6?e a young girl-perhaps just past twenty -a comfortable, substantial looking sort ot girl, with fresh color, wann brown eyes acd a definite way of doing things. George could tell that hy the way she put one firm brown hand cm the knob of the door. "May I come ra?" she ask?d. "Tsst this the Gray bungalow?" Assuring her that it was, George stumbled over a chair in his hurry to open the door. He begged her to be seated and after she bad composed herself comfortably In one of the wide wicker chairs, he sat down op posite her. "You're Just the person I want to see," she said, and George felt flat tered. "You Bee, I'm Miss Stace. Ami Stace. And I'm visiting my brother, Walter Stace. 1 came for only a few weeks, but he wants me to stay the winter. You know, brother's an in structor at the college, and like all the rest of them he's as poor as a church moase. So I told htm ? wqpWrr*t stay unless 1 could earn enough money to take care of my self, rm not a bk oiever, and I don't know bow to teach or do anything, But the other day I had an Mea. "I hate to play cards and I lore to take cara of children-that's Just the opposite of most of the women about here. There's a oard ctub at least once a week-and cord parties m be tween and trips to town for shop ping and the matinee And all the girls who are married to faculty peo ple get their husbands to take care of their children afternoons when they want to hav?j a good time. 60 1 thought I'd be not mother's helper, exactly but-a father's helper. Ann ended her recital breathless and laughing. "Isnt it a Jolly idea?" she went on. "And it isn't a bit expensive for you fathers. Club afternoons I entertain the children for fifteen cents apiece and call for and deliver them, too. For a quarter apiece I take them on other days-private treatment, you know, and I have to charge more, fo there ain't so many children those days. "Walter's .wile knows Mrs. Gray not very well, but they belong to the same club. So she sent me over to see you. I thought maybe you'd be ono of my customers." For the first time Ann stopped long enough to let George explain. She looked at him appealingly from her soft brown eyes. "Buc I tn not Mr. Gray." said George, with real regret. "I'm Just Mr. Walton. The Grays have gone unexpectedly to California, and Tve taken their bungalow. You see, I write stories." "Oh, I'm so sorry," apologized Ann? *1 muet have seemed so stupid. 1 really beg your pardon." George was easting about for an excuse to detain the tharming Ann, when Patsy ran into the room. He had bright Mw? ?yee and bright yel low hair. His fa?e was pink and freckled aad his baby lips smiled bewitchingly SM ha F&n confidently up to Georg?. "Oh, but after all," said Ann, when she saw the boy, "maybe you do want me. Isn't he a dear!" "Isn't he, now?" said George with t^rvor, as an idea for seeing more of Ann came into his head. "And Mrs, Walton does play cards, [ suppose?* questioned Ann. "Why-you see-" blundered George, "Mrs. Walton's not here." "Oh!" Ann's monosyllable was comprehensive. The scene before her became a tragedy. She noted the absence of a button on George's coat-the apparent embarrassment of the big man who was trying to fill a, mother's place to the small boy the child's gleeful Ignorance of the whole situation. Mentally Ann dubbed the mother heartless, a brute. "Then you do want me sometimes, don't you?" she said finally. "I know I could help you make the hoy happy.* Before she went George made ar rangements for her to come every morning at 10 to take the cherub Patsy for two hours. "I'd rather not have the boy with other children," he said honestly. "But if you'll Just keep him here at the house-while I try to write a blt-tl wouhl help me ever so much. I've got a very good If this was a meeting of the Moth ers' Club-lt was Informal Indeed! Scattered over the sands or playing In the water were a score of children in bathing suits, happy looking, sun burned healthy looking boys and girls. fiFarther up the beach in the shade of several wind-blo/wn cedars, a dozen promen were engaged In spreading a ?picnic meal. They, too, were garbed Knost informally In bathing dresses of every description and they were gay and laughing and thinking of every thing else except Mrs. Hibberd Hec tor when 6be walked" into their midst, charmingly gowned, smiling tolerant ly, yet with an air of offended dignity pervading her whole bearing. Never before had this high of9d'_l of rae State Union of Mothers' ciubs been BO received when she honored an or ganization with her presence. "Mrs. Armstrong?" ehe asked sweet ly. From the group of startled women there came a tall, well-proportioned young woman, with a calm self-pos sessed manner and steady gray eyes that searched Mra Hibberd Hector's handsome countenance with puzzled inquiry in their depths. She wore hf* bathing dress with unconscious 6.au and she held out a slender, sun-tanned hand to the visitor. "How do you do T she asked -courte ously. "I am Mrs. Hibberd Hector," ex plained that lady. "I rather expected -a-dlffere&t sort of a reception, you know, dear Mrs. Armstrong. More for mal, you know!" "Of course you would have received It, Mrs. Hector," paid Mrs. Armstrong quietly, "if we had expected you to day. I assure you we have made ev ery, preparation for tomorrow." "Tomorrow?" repeated Mrs. Hib berd Hector, feeling for her notebook and adjusting her lorgnette. "I'm sure the date was for today-the twenty eighth-dear "me, I can't tell whether this ls an eight or a nine-so provok ing!" She peered nearsightedly at her own hieroglyphics. "Your date was for^tbe twenty-ninth -I am so sorry you have been incon venienced, Mrs. Hector; but it ls not too late for us to arrange the meeting for this a/ternoon. There are some^ details of tbe entertainment that "will be lacking but our welcome will be Just as cordial and we Bhall enjoy your talk. Let me present the mem bers of the Mothers' club." Mrs. Hibberd Hector graciously shook hands with the members of the Mothers* cfub and remembered the names, too. They were a hearty, healthy, handsome looking lot of women, too, she admitted to herself and they looked as If they had al ready sorved some of the problems over which 6he Btlll knitted her brows. When it was suggested that they a-Il return to leamington and hold the meeting as planned, and as worthy of their aonored guest, Mrs. Hibberd Hector vetoed the idea and offered to talk to them there on the beach after the luncheon was served. It was stn unusual occasion for Mrs. Hibberd Hector and she gradu ally unbent to meet these simple hearted, well mannered women on their own ground. She was persuad ed to don an extra bathing dress that had been brought along and she, too. sported in the rising tide and became intimately acquainted with more chil dren In an hour than she hnd ever done in her life before. Mrs. Hibberd Hectc- submitted to being ducked un der tue water; Mrs. Hector played du_ k-on-a-rock and learned to skip flat stones on the? water. All this happened after the tooth some picnic meal where there were clams and green corn roasted then and there and all sorta of good things prepared by these women who knew how to be mothers in so many differ ent ways that Mrs. Hibberd.Hector's theories were all knocked askew. After the meal had been disposed of and all of them, mothers and chil dren and honored guest, had dis ported in the water, they emerged a dripping rompany and seated them selves on the beach. "Now, Mrs. Hector." said the presi dent, with an arm around each of her two children, "if you will pardon the extreme informality of the meeting, we would he honored to have you ad dress us." There w-as a gentle hand clapping and they all looked at the honored guest, who had quite forgotten to re move her bathing cap. From under its rim there peered a small brown curl, escaped from its confinement Mrs. Hibberd Hector looked around at the audience assembled to hear ber, at their quiet, well-behaved chil dren, all watching her expectantly, gravely, and suddenly her subject, "How to Hold Your Child's Love," ap peared unavailing before these women who had already discovered the secret. All at once a little two-year-old girl who hnd been watching the honored guest with silent admiration toddled over to Mrs. Hector and bent a mimd and rosy face to hers, "i'd like to kiss dat tunning 'ittle turi," she an nounced and forthwith did kiss it to find herself wrapped close in the em brace of Mr3. Hibberd Hector. "Ladies," she said i.. a mufiled voice, "pray excuse me from address ing you-my subject was chosen in Ignorance and I have learned more in this brief hour than 1 could teach you In a lifetime!" Stuck to His End of the Game. Rupert Hughes, author of "Excuse Me," has been engaged ia writing* plays since he was nine years old, at which age he not only wrote a play, but starred In it. The premiere of tho first Hughes ofay netted 80 cents, and lt enjoyed a considerable run, but in the end the star's older brother kept all but 50 cents of the total receipts. Since then Mr. Hughes limited feb en- ! deavors to writing. SUMMONS. The State of South Carolina, County of Edgefield. Court of Common Pleas. G. W. Smith, Plaintiff, against S. W. Wideman, as administrator of the estate of Mrs. Margaret M. Smith, deceased. Lily E. Smith, Josie May Smith, Ira E. Smith, Defendants. Summons for relief. (Complaint " not served.) To the Defendants above named: You are hereby summoned and re quired to answer the complaint in, this action which is filed in the office of the 'Jlerk of the Court of Com mon Pleas, for the said county, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said complaint on the subscrib ers at their office at Edgefield C. H. S. C., within twenty days after the sf rvice hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer the complaint within the aforesaid time, the plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the com plaint. Sheppard Bros., Plaintiff's Attorneys. Test W. B. Cogburn(L. S.) Clk. C. 0. P. & G. S. Edgefield Co., S. C. To the non-resident defendant, Lily E. Smith: You will take no tice that the original Summons and Complaint in the above stated ac tion, is on tile iu the office of the Clerk of the Cour* of Common Pleas and General Sessions, in and for thc County of Edgefield, and State aforesaid. Sheppard Bros., Plaintiff's Attorneys. May 28th, 1912. Bankrupt's _Petition_ For ~ Discharge. _ In the District Court of [the United States For the district of S. C. In the matter of B. H. Miller, bankrupt. To the Honorable ILA. M.Smithe Judge of the District Court of the United States for the District of South Carolina: B.H.Miller of Trenton in the county of Edgefield and state of S. C. in said District, respectfully rep resents that on the 23 day of Au gust last past he was duly adjudged Bankrupt under the acts of Cong ress relating to Bankruptcy; th?t he has duly surrendered all his prop es ty and rights of property, and has fully complied with all the require ments of said acts and of the orders of the Court touching his Bank ruptcy. Wherefore he prays that he may be decreed by the Court to have a full discharge from all debts prov able against his estate under said bankrupt Acts, except such debts as are excepted by law from such discharge. Dated this 27 dav of May, A. D. 1913. B. H. Miller, Bankrupt. ORDER OF NOTICE THEREON District of S. C.-ss: On this 3 day of June A. D. 1912, on reading the foregoing pe tition, it is Ordered by the Court, that a hearing be had upon the same on the 8 day of July, A. D. 1912, be fore said Court at Charleston, S. C. in said District, at ll o'clock in the forenoon,and that notice thereof be published in the Edgefield Ad vertiser a newspaper printed in said District, and that all known credi tors and other persons in interest may appear at the said time and place and show canse, if any they bare, why the prayer of the said, petitioner should not be granted. And it is further Ordered by the Court, that the Clerk shall send by mail to all known creditors copies of said petition and this order, ad dressed to them, at their places of residence as stated. Witness the Honorable H. A. M. Smith, Judge of said Court, and thc Seal thereof at Charleston, S. C. in said District on the 2 of June A. D. 1912. Rich W. I-Iutson, Clerk. A Word to Kodakers 1 am carrying a nice line of cameras and kee j) films in stock all the time. Noth ing but right fresh stock offered for sale. Geo. F. Mims Large Purchases. We have just unloaded One solid car of chairs,1 One solid car of furniture, One solid car of Hackney wagons, One solid car of Hackney bug gies, and are now ready to supply you with everything in these lines. Ramsey & Jones.